本文据云南大学中国少数民族村寨调查资料 ,对中国民族村寨的经济转型做了历史阶段性的划分 ,并对其结构和动力特征进行了初步的分析 ,提出资源约束的强制性在中国民族村寨的经济转型中日益突出 ,经济转型关联到生活方式的改变 ,动力差异产生了整体性的突发转型和个体选择性的渐变转型两种基本类型。中国民族村寨的诸多经济问题 ,其症结不在于“传统”与“现代” ,而在于它们在市场参与中的地位和方式 ,在于它们对市场的边缘性参与的基本事实 Based on the survey data of ethnic minority villages in Yunnan Province, this paper makes a historical classification of the economic transformation of Chinese nationality villages and analyzes the structure and motive characteristics of the ethnic villages in China. The author puts forward that the restriction of resources is mandatory in China’s ethnic villages Economic restructuring is increasingly prominent, economic restructuring is associated with changes in lifestyle, dynamic differences have led to the overall sudden transition and individual selective gradual transformation of two basic types. The crux of many of the economic problems in Chinese ethnic villages lies not in the “traditional” and “modern” but in their position and way in market participation in the basic fact that they are marginal to the market